{"id":364,"date":"2015-05-05T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2015-09-17T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:14:18","slug":"jean-francois-rischard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/jean-francois-rischard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Francois Rischard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/05\/JFR-Portrait.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-365 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/05\/JFR-Portrait.jpeg\" alt=\"JFR Portrait\" width=\"198\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/05\/JFR-Portrait.jpeg 136w, https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/05\/JFR-Portrait-106x150.jpeg 106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>World Bank Vice President<\/h4>\n<h4>Author of <em>High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them:<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><em>Rischard\u2019s book was the inspiration for the Global Issues Network<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rischard ( Luxembourg 1948), is a recognized economist who used to be the World Bank Vice President in charge of Europe, acting as the Bank\u2019s chief spokesman both to the European Union and to individual European countries from 1998-2005.<\/p>\n<p>He is a frequent speaker and covers such topics as managing financial crises, sustainable development, corporate governance, the role of business beyond its traditional borders, new technologies and their applications for development, the changing rules and inner workings of the new world economy, and the need for new global governance mechanisms in an increasingly complex and inter-linked world.<\/p>\n<p>He holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in economics (University of Aix-Marseille), a law doctorate (Luxembourg), and a Master\u2019s in business administration (Harvard Business School). He is the author of, inter alia, <em>High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them<\/em>, in which he argues that traditional institutions are incapable of addressing a growing list of complex global issues. \u00a0This book inspired what is now known as the Global Issues Network around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank Vice President Author of High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them: Rischard\u2019s book was the inspiration for the Global Issues Network Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rischard ( Luxembourg 1948), is a recognized economist who used to be the World Bank Vice President in charge of Europe, acting as \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/jean-francois-rischard\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalissuesnetwork.org\/rio2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}